Anyone willing to venture a guess as to the number of clocks involved ? (including uwaves, vcrs, etc...) 11 clocks at my home, but only 3 people. -- Rob Jones On Oct 30, 12:13am, Chris Carrier wrote:
Subject: Clock change orgy of 1996-10-27 On 1996-10-28 05:04 GMT I posted:
more people changed time today, 1996 October 27, than on any other date in history.
To which Paul Eggert commented:
Could be. 1991-09-15 is another candidate; it's the last time that China changed its clocks.
Good point. The magnitude of the clock changing orgy, in terms of number of people, would have been about the same. Speaking in very broad general terms, the population of the US (ex. eastern IN, HI, and AZ) is about 250 million, Mexico 100 million, EU 350 million, Russia 150 million, totalling 850 million, plus or minus 100 M. The population of China is somewhere in the range of 1100-1200 million, so it would take another 300 million people, in non-EU Europe and the Central Asian republics of the CIS, changing time on 1996 October 27 to exceed the Chinese 1991 record. Sounds like a close thing.
I furthermore posted an:
Editorial comment on the above: it should have been on the last Sunday in September not October!